'No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers' proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.

A fossil found inside a souvenir 'pet rock' could push the start of complex life on Earth back by about 750 million years.

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

Big Tech consumes more than many countries

About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 (54%) read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade…

This paper introduces CURLoRA, a novel approach to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) that leverages CUR matrix decomposition in the context of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Our method addresses two critical challenges in LLM fine-tuning: mitigating catastrophic…

Presentation #336.03 in the session “Collaboration with Integrity: Partnerships with Indigenous Communities in the Americas and Polynesia”.

In an astounding display of computational prowess, the StorageReview Lab Team has set a consecutive world record by calculating pi to an incredible 202,112,290,000,000 digits. This remarkable achievement eclipses the previous record of 105 trillion digits…

Spade-toothed whales are the world's rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. Until, perhaps, now. One may have washed up onto a New Zealand beach.

All it took was a reverse-engineered camera firmware and a custom API rewrite.

Early photographers sold their snapshots to advertisers, who reused the individuals' likenesses without their permission

Back at Computex 2024, AMD unveiled their highly anticipated Zen 5 CPU microarchitecture during AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su's opening keynote. AMD announced not one but two new client platforms that will utilize the latest Zen 5 cores. This includes AMD's latest…

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A new computer simulation upends ideas about feeding black holes that astronomers have held since the 1970s.

When lawmakers voted to allow hemp production in 2018, they quietly opened the door to legal THC in all 50 states.

The enduring legacy of Euclidean geometry underpins classical machine learning, which, for decades, has been primarily developed for data lying in Euclidean space. Yet, modern machine learning...

In early 2005, Michael Arrington, a lawyer, and Keith Teare, an entrepreneur, started a fund called Archimedes Ventures. Their idea at the time was to invest in Web 2.0, meaning the nascent world of web apps. They built a few products at the time. One was…